Etienne Hajdu quotes

“Where the material ends, art begins.”
-- Etienne Hajdu

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“As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.”

Source : Ballads for Broadbrows (1930) "Lines for a Worthy Person"

“Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? "I'm glad you asked that. I've been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art - when it is in the hands of artists."”

“The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.”

“We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.”

“Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.”

“Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.”

Source : "Auguste Rodin: The Man, His Ideas, His Works". Book by Auguste Rodin, p. 61-63, 1905.

“Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man”

“Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the ‘core aspect of the design’”

“Terrific. Now to win a larceny trial all we have to do is prove how the universe ends.”

“He that is hard to please, may get nothing in the end.”